The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Hey?" Cecilia looked around, then raised her finger and pointed at her face in confusion, "Excuse me, are you asking me?"

"Besides you and me, there shouldn't be any other wills transformed by the stigmata here." Mistellin said, "Logically speaking, the so-called stigmata should only record simple memories. Except for the original administrator of the stigmata space of the Kaslana family and the holder of the original stigmata, there shouldn't be any individual consciousness in other stigmata spaces, not to mention..."

Halfway through her speech, Mistellin suddenly hesitated: "...Shouldn't you have passed away fifteen years ago? Although it's incomplete, there is clearly a record of you left in my body."

“…inside your body? May I ask who you are…?” Cecilia asked.

"As for my name, I've already introduced it to your daughter. My name is Misterine, and my full name is Misterine Shaniyate." Misterine said, "And if you're asking what kind of existence I am... to use the words of your bishop, I was born into this world from Shaniyate's stigmata space with a face similar to that of a human."

"The holy scar space of the Shaniyat clan?" Everyone present was stunned.

"Yes." Mistellin nodded slowly. "When you entered the underground base, you should have encountered the Honkai beasts that were condensed by the Honkai energy I released, right?"

Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder] quickly responded: "So, you are the cadre that Gray Snake mentioned earlier who needs to use the World Snake technology?"

"If you mean [to fix my body completely in the real world to prevent it from suddenly appearing in an unknown place when I return and causing a new round of collapse there] and [to collect my overflowing collapse energy and clean it up regularly in the World Serpent's base]," Misterine nodded gently, "If I hadn't used the World Serpent's technology, I really couldn't have done these two things by myself."

"I heard in Saint Freya's history class that the second collapse would last about three years later." Raiden Mei [Herser of Lightning] said calmly, "After Sirin was annihilated by Destiny and Anti-Entropy, the second collapse did not end immediately. For a long time after Destiny announced Sirin's death, Siberia continued to experience collapse events of unknown cause and without warning. At that time, Destiny judged that although the second Herrscher had been confirmed dead, due to the special nature of the Herrscher of the Void, the power she left in that bloodline still irregularly connected the road between the real world and the imaginary space. After the third collapse, the remaining collapse energy in Changkong City continued to cause irregular collapse events in the Far East, which indirectly proved Destiny's judgment."

"It's just... from your description now, you were already born into this world at that time?" Raiden Mei [Hersher of Lightning] frowned slightly, "You can't control your own form, and you can't completely control the Honkai energy overflowing from your body... Although your will doesn't seem to be affected by the Honkai, and even from your experience, your individual will is more inclined to the human side than most humans, but this form of expression is just like a Herrscher who can't control himself."

"The so-called ideal form originally has external features that are quite similar to those of the Herrscher." Misterine did not seem to be ready to deny the accusation of Raiden Mei [Herscher of Thunder]. She realized that she was equivalent to a disaster when she was born, and she had even tried to wipe out her own life more than once. Compared to her own nature, which had long been clear, she was more interested in another thing standing in front of everyone. "I will join the World Serpent. From the beginning, it is to allow myself to be truly controlled. The Gray Serpent once promised me that as long as the Stigmata Project is completed, I will have a chance to transcribe myself and be reborn, so..."

Mistelline turned her gaze towards Cecilia and changed the subject: "How did you do all this?"

"=...If you ask me how I did all this, I don't know how to answer..." Cecilia scratched her white hair and said helplessly.

"You clearly have a similar way of existence as I do, but you can't show your entity in the world like me. Instead, you attach yourself to your daughter with your own will." Mistellin said, "I have never heard of such a stigma. On the physical level, the stigma is just a special genome. The stigma space, which is independent of the imaginary space, will spontaneously collect everything the stigma holder has seen and experienced through these genomes. Even I am an existence that was suddenly born by accident with the knowledge and memories obtained by all the Shaniyats in the stigma space. For an existence like you, probably not even the World Serpent's database has a similar record."

"But if that's the case..." Cecilia asked in confusion, "Why can you let me manifest in my physical form?"

"——I don't know." Mistellin shook her head. "I can instinctively know what I should do to make you appear. I also know your will. It seems that you have already experienced a transcription... But why do I know all this? And why do you still retain your consciousness that should have disappeared after the transcription? These things, even Shaniyat's stigma does not seem to have any relevant records."

Chapter 4: Ai Lishiya: Madam! This way! (k)

Kaslana and Shaniyat, these two bloodlines and the holy marks buried deep within them have always been given the same title by the outside world for different reasons - [Herrscher Killer].

Warriors of the Kaslana clan possess near-absolute resistance to Honkai.

In 2014, when the third Honkai broke out in Changkong City, Kiana at that time relied solely on the physical characteristics given to her by the blood of the Kaslana clan, and made the Herrscher Mei Raiden reveal her Herrscher characteristics to the outside world - the pair of wings representing Honkai, and forcibly blocked and separated from Raiden Mei's body with her bare hands, thereby suppressing her Herrscher consciousness.

Although they are also known as the Herrscher Killers, unlike Kaslana's [Ultimate Honkai Resistance], the members of the Shaniyat clan do not have the same Honkai resistance as the members of Kaslana clan.

If Kaslana is the [sharp blade] that cuts off and blocks the Houkai, then Shaniyat is the [herb] that neutralizes the Houkai and turns it harmless.

Of course, Shaniyat's characteristics are not just simple neutralization.

Moreover, although the holy marks of the Shaniyat clan have such precious characteristics, the intensity of their characteristics is still far less violent and tyrannical than Kaslana's characteristics.

At the same cost, the Honkai energy that Shaniyat could neutralize could not be compared with the Honkai energy that Kaslana could block.

On the other hand, if Shaniyat wanted to do something similar, the price he would have to pay would be far greater than that of the Kaslana clan.

Therefore, fifteen years ago, when Cecilia faced the disaster that would be caused by the loss of control of the Second Herrscher, and launched a life-threatening attack on the catastrophe that heralded the demise of civilization, she paid the price with more than half of her blood. It was simply impossible for her to continue to survive in this world like Kiana, who forcibly suppressed the Third Herrscher.

However - just like most of the Kaslana clan members were unable to fully master the power of the stigmata.

Even when she was on the verge of death, she did her best to control the direction of her own abilities, thus accurately dissolving the runaway Honkai energy into harmless things and not letting the blood that overflowed out of her body get out of control. But it was precisely because she devoted all her energy to controlling the characteristics of [blood] that Cecilia did not further control the [Stigmata] she possessed.

At that time, Cecilia thought that as long as her blood did not reverse after leaving her body, the situation could not get worse.

There is no doubt that this judgment cannot be called rash. After all, whether from the results or the process, Cecilia's choice undoubtedly successfully saved the lives of most people.

She eliminated the Houkai energy that overflowed from the Second Herrscher's body, and also suppressed the large-scale Houkai caused by the Houkai fission bomb launched by Otto. Not only did Siegfried survive successfully, but most of the residents of Siberia were also able to save their lives due to Cecilia's sacrifice...

Except for a very small number of people, Cecilia's sacrifice saved the lives of most people.

Yes.

——Except for a very small number of people.

From the fact that he had acquired a human-like body and bones without any warning in his confusion and bewilderment, to being curious about everything in this world like other newborns, and using his own characteristics to explore and understand the things around him step by step, he realized that as the crystallization of Shaniyat's concept of [salvation], he was closely followed by [disaster] after his birth, and thus fell into complete despair. He tried to destroy himself several times in vain, and finally learned the solution to all this from the gray snake...

As Misterine quietly recounted her past in a calm tone, Cecilia's face became paler and paler.

"I...I'm sorry...I, I didn't know..."

She stretched out her hand, as if wanting to give a gentle hug to this woman who had been covered in scars since birth, but when she thought that the other person's birth was an accident caused by her own choice, Cecilia couldn't help but stop her action.

Not only Cecilia, but everyone else present fell into silence involuntarily.

"You don't have to feel sorry for me." Facing Cecilia's sincere apology, Misterine closed her eyes briefly and shook her head gently. "I'm telling you all this not to win your sympathy. It's just that after seeing your existence, I chose to convey my existence in the form of words in order to understand the current situation as efficiently as possible."

"No matter from which perspective you look at it, your choice at that time was correct, so you don't need to regret what you did because of me."

Mistelline actually had quite complicated feelings towards Cecilia.

On the one hand, the other party is the main factor that caused him to come into this world unexpectedly and bring disaster.

If possible and if she had a choice, Mistryn certainly didn't want to be born into this world on her own initiative.

But on the other hand, as a humanoid creature transformed from the extremely special holy scar space of Shaniyat, Mistelline's values ​​and personality meant that she could not simply deny Cecilia's behavior that saved most of humanity.

If she had not placed other lives at a higher level, if she had not been as hopelessly gentle as all the other Shaniyat, and if she had not taken [saving] and [healing] as her own mission, Mistelline would not have been able to engage in self-destruction in vain again and again after realizing that her birth was bound to be accompanied by disaster.

Therefore, if she were in Cecilia's shoes, she would definitely make the same choice as Cecilia.

Of course, as the embodiment of the stigmata of Shaniat, Mistelline was also very clear about Cecilia's character. She knew that this woman who was as gentle as the Virgin Mary would not excuse herself for these reasons, so after pondering for a moment, she chose to use another thing to divert Cecilia's attention.

"If you still feel sorry for me, then, as compensation, I hope you can tell me everything you can about yourself." Misterlin said calmly, "For example, you clearly lost your life in the second collapse, but why do you exist in the body of that girl in the form of consciousness? For example, as a being similar to me, why didn't you have any impact on the surrounding environment when you came to this world? To this day, if it weren't for the underground base of the World Serpent that continuously collects the uncontrolled collapse energy and releases it at a fixed location, condensing it into a collapse beast for processing, perhaps, even now, there may still be people who lose their lives because of my existence."

"If possible, I hope you can answer my questions as much as possible."

Cecilia pursed her lips, with a hint of sadness in her eyes that was hard to conceal.

It was not only because she had sensed Misterine's purpose and therefore felt increasingly guilty about this independent will that was influenced by herself and Shaniyat, but also because... she couldn't even do the [compensation] that the other party was asking for.

"I'm sorry." Cecilia shook her head. "I can't give a definite explanation for these questions."

“Really? Do I know?” Contrary to Cecilia’s expectations, Misterine did not show any disappointment. “Before I materialized your will into this world in physical form, I carefully compared you with the information in my body… the information of [Cecilia] that was transcribed. Although you may feel a little offended, I did not get the answers to these questions from those memories.”

"It seems that even as the subject being transcribed, you don't seem to know why your will can be completely preserved in the stigmata... and even why it was transferred to Kiana by the task you call the captain." Misterine crossed her arms under her chest and suddenly turned her gaze to the face of Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy]. "If my perception just now is correct, my lord, your young [Captain]... seems to have arrived at the World Serpent underground base, right?"

"Yes, that's right." Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] nodded subconsciously, then showed a dissatisfied expression to Mistellin, "Also, how many times have I told you not to call me by such a rigid title as Lord? Come, say it with me - 'Dear Alicia'."

Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder]'s face twitched, and an expression similar to the past that she could not bear to look back on appeared on her face involuntarily.

Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] couldn't help but twitch her eyelids.

Although she had been straightened out after meeting the captain, she had not forgotten the deep friendship she once had with Raiden Mei [Herser of Lightning]. Moreover, when the captain appeared in her world, she had witnessed with her own eyes the scene where Raiden Mei [Herser of Lightning] said this under the [coercion and inducement] of Alicia's memory.

So the moment she heard the words "Dear Alicia", Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] instinctively started to suffer from PTSD.

Compared to them, Mistelin didn't feel anything strange. As the embodiment of the holy scar of the Shanyat clan, Mistelin had her own pride, but she was not a tsundere in terms of emotions. Like Cecilia, she liked to be straightforward and said what Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] had guided her to say without much psychological pressure: "Dear Alicia, can you let me meet your captain?"

Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] was shocked. Out of sympathy for Misterine's past experience and the pleasure she felt after hearing her address, she subconsciously said something that made her want to go back to the past and slap herself hard at that moment: "Of course, no problem! Solving the troubles of beautiful girls has always been Alicia's favorite subject! I believe the captain must be the same as me. How could he have the heart to ignore a beautiful girl who is as lovely as a flower like me?"

For a moment, except for Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] who said this, Mistrine, Cecilia, and the three Valkyries from this world who came to the World Serpent for the trial, the expressions of everyone else froze.

Raiden Mei's [Herser of Thunder] forehead was soaked with cold sweat. She swallowed lightly and subconsciously extended her hand to Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy]: "Alica, calm down a little."

"Hmm? What are you talking about, Mei?" Alysia's flawless face revealed a very beautiful and sincere smile, but it made Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder] feel extremely slapped. "Don't you want to help this poor beautiful girl solve the problems that are still bothering her as soon as possible?"

"No, when did I say that?!" Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder] shook her head, "But——"

"That's no problem! Let's go, dear Misterlin!" Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] grabbed Misterlin's wrist, then ran towards the Paradise Hall with a smile on her face. "I'll take you to see our captain! Don't worry! Our captain is a very reliable boy, he will definitely give you a perfect solution to the predicament you are facing!"

It was not known whether it was because she was moved by the tempting promise, but after a moment's silence, Mistlin did not make any resistance to Alicia's [Miss Pink Fairy] joyful actions as before, but followed her silently and disappeared with her into the dark corridor deep in the underground base.

"Wait - listen to what someone is saying!!" The pale-faced Mei Raiden [Herserker of Thunder] hurriedly followed the back of Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] and rushed over.

"...Let's follow too." Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] said with a complicated tone.

At the same time, inside the paradise of the afterlife.

At dusk in the forest, Li Shubai looked at the white-haired woman who suddenly appeared in front of him with a confused look on his face. He was a little stuck in his thoughts: "You... who are you?"

Chapter 4: Ai Lishiya's Big Failure! (k)

Li Shubai couldn't help but feel confused. In fact, the memories of all the Yingjie present, including Eden, Aponia and Ying, who had already updated their memories, were shocked by the sudden appearance of the white-haired woman.

The paradise of the past is a space composed of memory and cognition. However, no matter how mysterious its principle is, it is still a virtual space with hardware facilities as the main body and data files within the hardware facilities as the skeleton.

Aside from the space area [Eternal Paradise] that even most heroes are unclear about, the entire Paradise of the Past can be roughly divided into two parts.

First, there was the supercomputer that was transformed from the luxurious mansion [Golden Courtyard] from the pre-civilization era and transferred by Velvi to deep underground, and the Paradise Hall that was built based on that super-specification computer.

That paradise hall is also the only real realm that these memories can visit and reach.

Of course, even Ying Jie's memory could not freely exert his full abilities in the hall of the paradise of the past.

The reality that memory can interfere with is very limited.

Although they can materialize their bodies temporarily and use the facilities of the Paradise Hall freely, as long as they appear in the Paradise Hall, their memories will continue to consume the energy provided by the power supply facilities of the Paradise in the past.

Therefore, unless it is necessary, the memories of most heroes will not come to the hall of the paradise of the past in person. This is also the reason why most of the world snake cadres who come to participate in the trial cannot directly see all the heroes.

Although there are reasons why some memories do not like to come into contact with outsiders, as equipment that is at least nominally claimed to be used for [Trial] and [Inheritance], there are still objective reasons why most of Ying Jie's memories will not appear directly in the hall.

The second part is the [Engine Field] which is built from pure data, with memory as the foundation and cognition as the building material.

[The Forgotten City]

[Twilight Sunset Forest]

[Dark and dark place]

[The Collapse of Truth]

[The Dream of the Painter]

[The Deep Door]

[The Final Tomb of the Dead Fire]

Only in these areas can the memories of these heroes exert power close to that of their original bodies.

However, as a memory composed of data, no matter how powerful Ying Jie's body is, and how much power these memories can exert in the realm of paradise, as long as the hardware facilities of the paradise in the past are destroyed, these things that are essentially just data will naturally not be able to continue to exist in this world in any way.

On the other hand, unless the hardware facilities of the paradise of the past life are directly destroyed, then no matter how powerful the people from the outside world are, it is impossible for them to suddenly appear in the paradise without these memories being aware of it.

This is because only when people themselves are transformed into data can people from the outside world enter this data space.

If one wants to temporarily bring one's knowledge into the realm of the heroes in the form of data, one must pass through the [door] at the deepest part of the Paradise Hall.

…Here lies the contradiction.

There was clearly no sign of any outsiders visiting the hall of the paradise of the afterlife, so how did this white-haired woman appear here?

In the eyes of the heroes, Li Shubai, who was having a verbal battle with Mobius not long ago, suddenly emitted a dazzling light without any warning. Then in the next second, the gentle woman with snow-white hair appeared beside Li Shubai with a smile on her face, like a phantom.

"Don't you know me?" The white-haired woman showed a happy smile mixed with a hint of amusement. Then, she bent down towards Li Shubai and gently lifted a strand of hair from her forehead. "Then, come a little closer, can you see it more clearly?"

Li Shubai was speechless for a moment.

It was not because he saw something he shouldn't have seen. Although the white-haired woman bent her waist and brought a pair of extremely oppressive and proud peaks right under his eyes, the other party's blue and white light armor that covered most of the skin on the upper body tightly made it impossible for him to have any romantic thoughts. He fell silent not because of anything else, but because on the thin blue cloth on the other party's chest, there was a Cecilia flower emblem that emitted a faint fluorescence and was deeply engraved.

And in destiny, the meaning of this flower is——

"Are you a member of the Shanniyat clan?" Li Shubai subconsciously said the answer that came to his mind.

But after hearing this answer, the white-haired woman showed an undisguised look of disappointment on her face, and her fair cheeks pouted slightly in dissatisfaction.

"It seems that the captain has completely forgotten everything about me." The white-haired woman raised her neck and turned away her gaze. "After completing the construction of the stigmata space, you were willing to let me enter the Hyperion, which is most important to you, in order to allow [Misterine] to be reborn. But I really didn't expect that I was the one who might forget everything after the transcription, but after seeing you, I completely disappeared from your memory... Should I say that things are unpredictable, or that people's hearts are unpredictable?"

“Oh, oh, oh.” Maybe because she smelled some fun, Alicia’s pink eyes sparkled with joy. “It seems that I have enough powerful enemies in the real world. How could you do this? Xiao Shubai, after stealing a girl’s heart, you forgot about the girl who loved you so much… Boys who play with the innocence of girls will go to hell!”

"..." Li Shubai was silent for a moment. He ignored Alicia who was trying to stir up trouble, and turned his gaze towards Abonya and Eden. "Do you two... know her?"

Through the few words of the white-haired woman, Li Shubai could roughly guess that the other party should know him, and also helped him complete the construction of the Holy Mark Space... If he guessed correctly, the person whose face seemed blurred in the memory he recalled not long ago because she was not Ying Jie should be the white-haired woman who suddenly appeared beside him.

In order to confirm his guess, Li Shubai chose to ask Aponia and Eden, two memory bodies that had completed the memory update, and Aponia and Eden did not disappoint his expectations.

"If the cadre files that Aponiya in the real world saw in the World Serpent are correct..." Aponiya crossed his five fingers and made a prayer-like gesture, "She... should be Miss Misterine who has been suffering from the disaster she caused."

"Hmm?" Although Aponia did not disappoint him, Li Shubai could not help but be stunned after receiving this answer. She turned her gaze to the white-haired woman...Misterlin, and asked curiously, "Are you a cadre of the World Serpent? Why did a cadre of the World Serpent suddenly come to my side?"

"It will probably take quite a while to explain these things." Mistrylin raised the corners of her mouth slightly, "And, if I'm not mistaken, the person Miss Abonya was talking about is not me standing here now."

"What do you mean..."

"Hi! Captain! I'm back!" He had only said half of his words when, accompanied by a brisk and pleasant voice, wave-like patterns suddenly appeared on the door in the air.